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Scholarships for 2019 Conference

Please submit your scholarship application after you have registered and received the confirmation for your $100 deposit payment.

In addition, you should not pay your final payment until scholarships are assessed and we can determine the correct final balance for you.

A limited number of full or partial scholarships will be offered to writers who plan to attend the Bear River Writers’ Conference. The awards will be made at the discretion of the Scholarship Review Board based on the merit of the work.

Bear River merit scholarships are provided through the generous support of the University of Michigan Department of English and our anonymous donors.

NOTE: All deposits will be non-refundable, regardless of award outcome. Any scholarship amounts awarded will be applied to the final conference payment due.

Application Process:

Applicants should submit a manuscript for consideration by our scholarship review board of up to 10 pages of fiction or nonfiction or up to 8 pages of poetry. Prose manuscripts must be double-spaced.

The page number should appear on each sheet of the manuscript

Include a short synopsis if your manuscript is excerpted from a longer project

Please send your strongest unpublished work

Please do not send newspaper journalism or academic writing

Please do not include your name anywhere on your submission or in the attached file name

Attach your manuscript as a Word doc or PDF

Due to the volume of applications received, we are unable to return submitted materials